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diff --git a/perl.man.4 b/perl.man.4 index 7100e80a22..54ddff5248 100644 --- a/perl.man.4 +++ b/perl.man.4 @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ ''' Beginning of part 4 -''' $Header: perl_man.4,v 3.0.1.13 90/11/10 01:51:00 lwall Locked $ +''' $Header: perl_man.4,v 3.0.1.14 91/01/11 18:18:53 lwall Locked $ ''' ''' $Log: perl.man.4,v $ +''' Revision 3.0.1.14 91/01/11 18:18:53 lwall +''' patch42: started an addendum and errata section in the man page +''' ''' Revision 3.0.1.13 90/11/10 01:51:00 lwall ''' patch38: random cleanup ''' @@ -407,6 +410,7 @@ with multiple <, >, or | characters to specify, respectively, left justification right justification, or centering. As an alternate form of right justification, you may also use # characters (with an optional .) to specify a numeric field. +(Use of ^ instead of @ causes the field to be blanked if undefined.) If any of the values supplied for these fields contains a newline, only the text up to the newline is printed. The special field @* can be used for printing multi-line values. @@ -1556,6 +1560,18 @@ compiles the whole program before executing it. The arguments are available via @ARGV, not $1, $2, etc. .Ip * 4 2 The environment is not automatically made available as variables. +.SH ERRATA\0AND\0ADDENDA +The Perl book, +.I Programming\0Perl , +has the following omissions and goofs. +.PP +The +.B \-0 +switch was added to Perl after the book went to press. +.PP +The new @###.## format was omitted accidentally. +.PP +It wasn't known at press time that s///ee caused multiple evaluations. .SH BUGS .PP .I Perl |